My Life. My Views

I never thought I would say this… But, over the years I have developed a lot of respect and regards for honest and genuine people. I immensely respect people who have a clean heart… They show you what they are and are not afraid of being themselves!! They do not try to be politically correct… They are who they are… and they are happy with that… Such kinds of people are happy in their skin!!

One such person who had created a storm, a few years ago, with her sexy and lascivious dance moves in Pardesiya, is Rakhi Sawant… When she hit the screen some years ago and created a storm, I used to hate her… She was another addition to the band of Mallika-Sherawat wannabes… And this trend was increasingly and threateningly catching more and more interest of people both inside the industry and outside…

But my perspective changed totally after I watched one of her interviews… the girl simply stunned me with her totally unabashed, uncensored, uninhibited style of speaking!! She is a fabulous dancer, no doubts about it… Just yday, I saw her dance on the “Salaam-e-ishq” mujhra, which was made eternal by the dance moves of Rekha, in Nach Baliye 3… There are some such evergreen songs which can never be copied and if they are, the performers don’t even come near to the original thing in terms of class and perfection…. But Rakhi did such a fabulous job… I am sure, there is no dancer (barring Madhuri ofc) who can do such justice to the eternal King-of-mujhra… But more than that watching her dance, I love watching her… simply watching her antics on the screen is a sheer pleasure!!!

The girl speaks with such honesty and genuinity, she just captures your heart immediately…

I dont know much abt her, but I notice that Indian media seems to be quite obsessed with her and other of her types..As you say, she might have some qualities and stuff, but isnt it also a fact that such people are basically a creation of overly enthusiastic and on your face media??

I haven’t followed Nach Baliye 3rd season much, but I agree when you say she is a good dancer. Infact, both of them are good dancers.

Now when it comes to honesty, atleast what I define as “media-honesty”, there are two types of them. SRK-honesty and Rakhi-Sawant-Honesty. When it come to SRK, I think he’s one of the least hypocrite person in the field full of hypocrite people. He admits he’s here for making big bucks. He openly admits his biggest fear is going into the crowd and people not recognizing him. Now coming to Rakhi-Sawant-Honesty. Earlier I used to call this Mallika-Sherawat-Honesty. Mallika used to be “honest” about her opinion on everything, but on a talk show when questions were raised about herself, she wasn’t honest and shied away. Saying whatever you feel like, bashing people left-right-center DOES NOT, imho, fall under honesty, that my dear friend I call publicity. ok, I admit she’s not being hypocrite, but not-hypocrite is not sufficient when it comes to honesty. period.

I absolutely agree with you!
I have followed the whole of Nach Baliye season 3 and i never liked her before that. But nach baliye changed my perspective about her completely. She says whatever she feels, directly on the face. And her dancing skills are just excellent!
The only thing I disliked was the way she walked out after loosing the nach baliye contest. That was certainly not in the spirit of the competition.

Remember the show ‘Big Boss’. People used to hate her but, her honest and bold way of expressing herself attracted more audience. The one thing I like about her is that she likes what she does and doesn’t bother what others have to complain…
Her dance is a treat 2 watch…she rocks!!

The sole opposer to this rakhi sawant fan club speaking 🙂
Honesty? I dunno how honest she is, but brash and abrasive she is. And thats why the channels and production houses give her so much lime-light. Her ability to shock draws a lot of attention. Doesnt matter whether the attenstion is positive or negative. I still hate her style of brash and abrasive nautanki (antics).

Hey Nova- I don’t agree with you! I feel she puts on a flase show. She apparently seems honest but is a big big big nautanki. She is a good dancer, but reason behind that is her extremely talented choreographer who made her and Abhishek dance so well..If remember, their composer won the best choregrapher award in almost every episode. Ok, she is a good dancer but there lacks that classy appeal.

As far as Mallika is concerned, as Nishit rightly pointed out, She too was being honest( at least pretending to) in the beginning. But i changed my opinion after watching her in “Pyar ke side effects” and the mayya mayya song of Guru. This lady has some class…. And hey, she is a good actress too.

But unfortunately, few people in our industry are branded as say, “the item girl”, ‘perfect bahu type”, etc etc..which is not true! Eventually, they are stuck to that category and i guess live with that tag all through out…

Personally i have watched her dance and i think she is pretty good.but I would consider her a great dancer or even go as far as to compare her to madhuri dixit if she can carry of a ball room dance or kathak in indian dance forms..Gracefulness is more than getting the steps right.I have tried to see her interviews..but its very embarassing to watch her make a complete ass of herself with every word and every expression i cant suffeer thru it for more than a few seconds and it sends me running to change the channel.